GENTLE READER: A proper response to someone attempting to grab something of yours in an elevator is, “Get your hands off my ...
Commonplace enough the hints are,—jocose sometimes, done up in rhyme. Doctor May, a month after the night I have told you of, was reading to his wife at breakfast from this fourth column of the ...
Almost invariably, a stranger will say something like, “For me? Oh, you shouldn’t have!” or “Roses, my favorite! How nice of ...
His Four Humors stated that lots of phlegm led to a calm and reasonable disposition! Jocose is an adjective that's used to describe someone who's in a good mood. If you are jocose you are cheerful ...
A proper response to someone attempting to grab something of yours in an elevator is, “Get your hands off my property.” Miss Manners might throw in a “please” in recognition of the jocose intention.
Miss Manners might throw in a “please” in recognition of the jocose intention. The equally unfunny remarks need not be acknowledged at all. But you could respond to “You shouldn’t have ...
Gone is the time when being jocose about Bing Crosby’s toupee, Jayne Mansfield’s structure, or the outcome of the daily double at Hialeah was fashionable; the new comedy covers a bleak ...
Historian and Rappler columnist Dr. Patricio 'Jojo' Abinales brings together essays that place marginal events, pests, ...
Cvek, Peter P. 2012. 3.17 John Locke on the Relationship between God and Morality. Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Vol. 35, Issue. 3-4, p. 260. KOGANZON, RITA 2016. “Contesting the Empire of Habit”: ...
Miss Manners might throw in a “please” in recognition of the jocose intention. The equally unfunny remarks need not be acknowledged at all. But you could respond to “You shouldn’t have ...